The effect of educational games in Virtual education on increasing the learning of Persian alphabet in first grade elementary school students

Subject Areas : Education

marzieh baghdadi ¹ , Fatemeh Ahmadbeigi ² , mohamadmehdi radan ³

1 - Graduate of Educational Technology, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Faculty member of Sociology Department, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch

Received: 2022-01-28 Accepted : 2022-07-05 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: virtual education, Reading skills, educational games, learning the Persian alphabet, writing skills,

Abstract :

Introduction: The world of children is full of joy, freshness and wonder. Play is the biggest support for the child's personality and mental well-being, as well as the child's mental and physical development. Playing games is the bond that forms their friendships and gives them the opportunity to acquire mental and emotional skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of educational games in cyberspace on increasing the learning of the Persian alphabet by first grade elementary school students.  Research Method:  the research study was experimental type. The study population includes first grade male students in District 8 at Tehran city. Sixty first grade students of Fakhami-1 school in two classes of 30 people have been selected based on the random sampling method. These two classes were selected from all the first elementary classes and one class of 30 people was randomly assigned as the control group and the other 30 people as the experimental group. To collect the data, a researcher-made educational achievement test of Persian alphabet was used. The educational game was also designed by the researcher and implemented on the experimental group. Finding: results showed that the educational games in virtual education have been effective to increase the learning of the Persian alphabet in first grade students. The findings indicate that educational games in virtual education are effective in increasing the reading and writing skills of the Persian alphabet in first grade elementery school students.

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